Your assignment, worth 60 points, is to find, post, summarize, and come up with discussion/comprehension questions, about 2 ted talks related to psychology that you wish we had watched. If you don't enjoy the first or second talk that you find and watch, please don't use it. Find one that is interesting to you. If nothing is interesting to you, well, that is really sad, and you need to look harder.
I suggest downloading the Ted Talk app for easy viewing. It is free.
The talks that you select must relate directly to one of the issues covered in the scope of this psychology class.
Those topics are:
The Brain: biological roots of behavior. Sensations/the senses: sight, sound, taste, hearing, and touch. Sleep/Dreams: This is not "dream interpretation" per se, but you will learn more about what you should be doing and what works best for your sleep cycles. The Brain on Drugs: what happens in the brain when things go really really wrong. Memory: How it works, how it can be improved, how things can go very wrong. Learning: How it works, what the types of learners are, how to optimize your own learning potential. Development: what is typical, what is atypical. Abnormal Psychology: when the brain isn't working "typically." Prevalence and aspects of mental illnesses, exploring the DSMIV, and examining how the mentally ill are treated in the United States.
Guidelines:
Once someone has posted a ted talk, that one is not available to you, so you will need to do another. Doing one that has already been posted means that yours does not count. You may not claim a talk and then do the assignment later, but you can do your post in several different stages by posting replies to yourself.
You will post your choices in the comment section. title your post the title of the Ted talk to make it super clear what others cannot pick.
1. title your post the same title as the ted talk page uses.
2. post a link to the talk
3. write your own summary of the talk. Include exactly how this talk relates to psychology class. (there are lots of awesome ted talks out there, many don't relate to our class, you can still watch them, but they don't count for this project.) Be specific about which of the above units they should be included in.
4. 5 open-ended and thought provoking questions that will stimulate discussion and show that the students have watched the talk.
Extra credit is available if you post additional questions onto other people's links to Ted Talks that they selected, summarized and generated discussion/comprehension questions about.
I suggest downloading the Ted Talk app for easy viewing. It is free.
The talks that you select must relate directly to one of the issues covered in the scope of this psychology class.
Those topics are:
The Brain: biological roots of behavior.
Sensations/the senses: sight, sound, taste, hearing, and touch.
Sleep/Dreams: This is not "dream interpretation" per se, but you will learn more about what you should be doing and what works best for your sleep cycles.
The Brain on Drugs: what happens in the brain when things go really really wrong.
Memory: How it works, how it can be improved, how things can go very wrong.
Learning: How it works, what the types of learners are, how to optimize your own learning potential.
Development: what is typical, what is atypical.
Abnormal Psychology: when the brain isn't working "typically." Prevalence and aspects of mental illnesses, exploring the DSMIV, and examining how the mentally ill are treated in the United States.
Guidelines:
Once someone has posted a ted talk, that one is not available to you, so you will need to do another. Doing one that has already been posted means that yours does not count. You may not claim a talk and then do the assignment later, but you can do your post in several different stages by posting replies to yourself.
You will post your choices in the comment section. title your post the title of the Ted talk to make it super clear what others cannot pick.
1. title your post the same title as the ted talk page uses.
2. post a link to the talk
3. write your own summary of the talk. Include exactly how this talk relates to psychology class. (there are lots of awesome ted talks out there, many don't relate to our class, you can still watch them, but they don't count for this project.) Be specific about which of the above units they should be included in.
4. 5 open-ended and thought provoking questions that will stimulate discussion and show that the students have watched the talk.
Extra credit is available if you post additional questions onto other people's links to Ted Talks that they selected, summarized and generated discussion/comprehension questions about.